The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1887-02-13

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Contrary to the expectation of many
President Cleveland signed
THE INTERSTATE COMMERCE. BILL.
Upon the part of railroad men, very
great pressure was brought to bear upon
the Attorney General to report the bill
as unconstitutional. Rumor says that
he did quite the contrary, so that the
President, under the settled conviction
that Congress had the right to regulate,
in some shape or form, the great rail-
road commerce OF the country, signed
the bill, and it will now go into opera
ton within very short space Of time.
How the bill will be interpreted remains
! TO be seen. For ambiguity of con-
! struction il is said to take not only the
! cake, but the whole bakery. If afte1 a
fair trial, it is found to be utterly unap-
plicable, it will have to be repealed. In
! the meantime the commissioners to be
appointed under the bill will secure fat
offices, and once such offices are created
it will be very difficult to wipe them
| out of existence. Railroad commits
sloners may die, but they very seldom
resign.
THE GOSSIP OF THE WEEK
here has been in connection with the
before long resignation of Secretary
Manning. He is about to resign his
position in the Cabinet to become the
president of a new bank to be started in
New York. For the next two or three
weeks there will be great speculation as
to the name of his successor. The
secret may leak out, but nothing will
| be definitely known until it is an
nounced from headquarters. Cabinet
| secrets, though, are difficult to keep.
| They will out. In fact, they always re-
mind me of what are called secret
sessions in the Senate. These are ses-
sionS that are supposed to be strictly
private. The nature of the proceedings
is not supposed to be diVulged. Yet,
strange as it may appear, few hours
it may be a few moments after d
secret session of the Senate, some cor
respondent of a great metropolitan
paper is in possession of all the facts,
not to speak of details, in regard to any
discussion upon any subject that may
happen to have taken place. Curious,
amt it? But the correspondents always
"get thar"
1 have noticed that, in newspaper
circles, considerable interest has been
taken in regard to
NUMEROUS SENATORIAL ELECTIONS
which have taken place throughout the
country within the last twoeor three
weeks. Notably the election Of U. s.
Senator in Indiana. In the lobby of
Wizards hotel the other evening, 1
asked man in reference to the election
OF Judge David Turpie, as U S. Senator,
by the Indiana Democrats. He said:
"His election is received here by the
Democratic party with great satisfac-
ton. Everyone feared a deadlock and
no election, with the result of leaving
the Senate Republican one majority
while the vacancy existed. The Senate
will stand, after March the 4th-pro-
vided New Jersey elects Democrat
SO Republicans. 81 Democrats, and one
Independent (Riddleberger). If there
is a contest in Indiana. and the Repub-
licans refuse to seat Turpie, they will
retain their majority. So, too, if by
any chance they can get a Senator from
New Jersey, or if there is no election
there, they will retain their majority.
At the Worst-that is, if the Democrats
elect their man in New Jersey, and
Turpie and Hearst flor there is some
talk of a contest over his election) are
seated, the Republicans will have one
half the senators and will hold the
organization.
LAS TO JUDGE TURPIE,"
continued my friend, he is in the prime
of his powers. He is IS years old, a
lawyer by profession, and has been in
public life for many years. He served
two terms in the State Legislature, and
was on the bench for many years. In
1862 he was chosen United States
Senatar to fill the unexpired term of
Jesse D. Bright, who had been ex-
PEELED, serving from January % until
March 4. Possessed of competency,
Judge Turpie has not worked hard in
his profession. He is capital story
teller, and is very popular with the
boys His manners are popular, and
his temper equable and genial. He has
not been active in politics for decade,
and is not identified with any of the
factions into which his party is
divided. 1t was this fact which
gave him the nomination-he was
the one Democrat whose selection
would create no dissatisfaction. ANY
one else would have intensified
factional quarrels. Turpie is a good
lawyer and an eloquent speaker, and
his Incidence alone has prevented his
winning a national reputation. He is
not a stylish dresser, wearing ready
made clothing and a title" antique
enough to match that of Eyarts. He is
about five feet eight inches in height,
and weighs about 165 pounds. He
wears an iron-gray chin beard, has blue
eyes, and quotes literally from Shake
speare, Homer and the Bible He will
take good position in the Senate,
though he is not likely to be a leader
Ike his colleague, the eloquent and i'm
petuous Voorhees,. The street car
companies will be a gamer from his
election, for he always takes a car
though he has only three blocks to go.
There will, no doubt, be a grand
"row" before Judge Turpie gets his
seat in the Senate. But
He WILL GET THERE ALL THE SAME.
1t will then be a close thing between
the two parties. As it is now with Van
Wyck and Riddleberger, and others